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Subject: Re: What is the average nodes per second for minimax?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:03:40 06/21/00

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On June 21, 2000 at 17:07:06, leonid wrote:

>On June 21, 2000 at 13:38:41, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>If you think that material-only evaluation programs are good for anything,
>>you're sadly mistaken.
>
>
>I said only that material evaluation is evaluation about everything in principe.
>About tactics... or just say it. I agree that in actual state of hardware it is
>not enough have only material evaluation, but its importance  will grow as
>rapidly as hardware capacity will improve. Very soon program that have in its

Only evaluating material has zero importance. Why would you do it when you can
evaluate material AND positional terms with no penalty? Besides, material is
just a rule of thumb, just like any positional term. Thinking that you can make
a good program by only considering material is absurd, no matter how fast your
computer is.
-Tom



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